THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
ten minutes. Then Finsen, the Dane, pro- 
duced these rays artificially at Copenhagen 
by means of the carbon arc. 
In 1907, Dr. Rollier started his Sunlight 
Clinic on a Swiss mountain, 4,000 feet above 
sea level. He has now more than 1,000 
patients. He has been healing defective 
white people for over 20 years. His success 
is known all over the world. The Swiss call 
him the “Sun God.” He is the ablest 
pioneer of Sunlight treatment, which will 
eventually become universal. Under his treat- 
ment, the whole body is exposed to the sun 
for three hours a day. 
In 1924, the Sunlight League was organized 
in London, under the patronage of the late 
Queen Alexandra. Its first ar was 
Dr. C. W. Saleeby. Strangely enough, it 
was Queen Alexandra who opened the way 
for Courtaulds by putting mourning out of 
fashion, and it was she who helped the new 
“* Sunlight Treatment ’’ to become established. 
In Germany, there is a nation-wide move- 
ment, mainly among young people, to give 
sunlight and air to the body. It has been 
scoffed at by prudes, as it is in a sense a revolt 
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